I think she, and her husband are arrogant enough to think she is representing a World Power. Maybe they will show her some of their achievements that far outshine anything we have done here, recently. Her having the ability to teach .... ANYTHING .... to China, is sheer arrogance. Next, she is going to show Warren Buffet how to make money!
"I'm hoping we, Mom and the Kids an me, can learn them Chinese somethin"
Critics say the first lady is missing an important opportunity on her China visit to draw attention to issues like free speech and press freedom
So why has Michelle Obama made education the theme of her first visit to China? It seems she’ll be preaching to the choir on this topic on her week long trip, which started today.
Which may be exactly why the White House picked it. “Her focus on people-to-people relations, her focus on education and youth empowerment is one that we believe will resonate in China,” deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters ahead of the trip.
“I’ll be talking with students about their lives in China and telling them about America and the values and traditions we hold dear. I’ll be focusing in particular on the power and importance of education, both in my own life and in the lives of young people in both of our countries,” Mrs. Obama wrote in a blog post announcing the visit.
Many China watchers in the United States have lamented that the White House says Obama will not discuss politics on the trip. They point to former first ladies Hillary Clinton speaking about human rights while in Beijing in 1995, and Laura Bush calling for China to exert more influence over the military junta in neighboring Myanmar.
“Public diplomacy matters, but it’s no substitute for policy,” wrote Elizabeth Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations' Asia Unbound blog. “The First Lady has the opportunity to do much more.”
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, second from left, her mother Marian Robinson, left, share a light mo …
Ms. Economy suggests that talking visa denials for US journalists, limited market access for American films, and free speech challenges for US universities operating in China all fit within the trip’s education theme.
The Chinese press, on the other hand, called the trip a “stroke of ‘gentle diplomacy’,” and praised its theme. “Not each and every one of the 1.3 billion Chinese citizens wakes up every morning agonizing over their nation’s human rights situation,” wrote Chen Weihua in China Daily USA, a state-owned newspaper. “On the contrary, education is probably the top priority for every Chinese family.”
The first lady – along with her mother and daughters Malia and Sasha, and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife, Peng Liyuan – spent the first day in Beijing touring the Forbidden Palace, watching students build robots at the Beijing Normal School, and trying her hand at calligraphy.
